On 11/11/05, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on the BoundedBuffer implementation right now. But, I've got a > question for you folks. What do you think a reasonable default would be for > the timeout value? Should it wait forever by default (like TimeoutBuffer > does) or should it immediately throw a BufferOverflowException?
Unless the class is named something like WaitBuffer then it should fail immediately by default. A programmer who isn't paying attention would be confused why their program just seems to hang if the default behavior was to block for a while. -- Sandy McArthur --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
